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Steve Townsend

Oct 26, 2015; 5:54pm

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Andres Hernandez

Oct 27, 2015; 7:13am

Re: FittedBondDiscountCurve with TBills

We weight them by liquidity, and as a rough measure we use the mid price divided by the bid-ask spread (we actually use relative weights, so this one is divided by the sum of all). Then again, as objective function we don't use the squared sum of errors, but rather something close to it. If the quoting error is actually within the bid-ask spread, then the error contributes only marginally (divided by a constant, normally 10). The intention is to allow for "free" movement of the curve within the bid-ask spread but to penalize any result that would put the value outside of it.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards

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Steve Townsend ---26/10/2015 19:31:50---I am trying to extend the Bond Curve to support T-Bills on the short end, The default weight setting

From: Steve Townsend <[hidden email]>
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Date: 26/10/2015 19:31
Subject: [Quantlib-users] FittedBondDiscountCurve with TBills

I am trying to extend the Bond Curve to support T-Bills on the short end, The default weight settings for duration < 1.0 seem too lage, skewing the fitting undesirably. What is a sensible choice of weight formula across the maturity spectrum when maturities < 1Y are needed on the curve? Seems like preserving the existing logic for >= 1Y is fine but a different rule is needed for < 1Y.
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Luigi Ballabio

Oct 27, 2015; 9:01am

Re: FittedBondDiscountCurve with TBills

Also, Andres contributed a pull request already that makes it possible to specify weights during fitting. We're smoothing out a few glitches, but I'm aiming at including it in next release.

Luigi

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 8:51 AM Andres Hernandez <[hidden email]> wrote:

We weight them by liquidity, and as a rough measure we use the mid price divided by the bid-ask spread (we actually use relative weights, so this one is divided by the sum of all). Then again, as objective function we don't use the squared sum of errors, but rather something close to it. If the quoting error is actually within the bid-ask spread, then the error contributes only marginally (divided by a constant, normally 10). The intention is to allow for "free" movement of the curve within the bid-ask spread but to penalize any result that would put the value outside of it.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards

Dr. Andres Hernandez

Senior Financial Engineer
Business Analytics
Risk Analytics

Phone: +49-69-6645-1351 IBM Deutschland

Mobile: +49-163-609-3280 Wilhelm-Fay-Str. 30-34

E-Mail: [hidden email] 65936 Frankfurt am Main

Germany

IBM Deutschland GmbH / Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter
Geschäftsführung: Martina Koederitz (Vorsitzende), Susanne Peter, Norbert Janzen, Dr. Christian Keller, Ivo Koerner, Markus Koerner
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Ehningen / Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 14562 / WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE 99369940

Steve Townsend ---26/10/2015 19:31:50---I am trying to extend the Bond Curve to support T-Bills on the short end, The default weight setting

From: Steve Townsend <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Date: 26/10/2015 19:31
Subject: [Quantlib-users] FittedBondDiscountCurve with TBills

I am trying to extend the Bond Curve to support T-Bills on the short end, The default weight settings for duration < 1.0 seem too lage, skewing the fitting undesirably. What is a sensible choice of weight formula across the maturity spectrum when maturities < 1Y are needed on the curve? Seems like preserving the existing logic for >= 1Y is fine but a different rule is needed for < 1Y.
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Steve Townsend

Oct 27, 2015; 10:10am

Re: FittedBondDiscountCurve with TBills

Many thanks for the info. I'll keep an eye out for that update in the repo.

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 5:38 AM, Luigi Ballabio <[hidden email]> wrote:

Also, Andres contributed a pull request already that makes it possible to specify weights during fitting. We're smoothing out a few glitches, but I'm aiming at including it in next release.

Luigi

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 8:51 AM Andres Hernandez <[hidden email]> wrote:
We weight them by liquidity, and as a rough measure we use the mid price divided by the bid-ask spread (we actually use relative weights, so this one is divided by the sum of all). Then again, as objective function we don't use the squared sum of errors, but rather something close to it. If the quoting error is actually within the bid-ask spread, then the error contributes only marginally (divided by a constant, normally 10). The intention is to allow for "free" movement of the curve within the bid-ask spread but to penalize any result that would put the value outside of it.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards

Dr. Andres Hernandez

Senior Financial Engineer
Business Analytics
Risk Analytics

Phone: <a href="tel:%2B49-69-6645-1351" value="+496966451351" target="_blank">+49-69-6645-1351 IBM Deutschland

Mobile: <a href="tel:%2B49-163-609-3280" value="+491636093280" target="_blank">+49-163-609-3280 Wilhelm-Fay-Str. 30-34

E-Mail: [hidden email] 65936 Frankfurt am Main

Germany

IBM Deutschland GmbH / Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter
Geschäftsführung: Martina Koederitz (Vorsitzende), Susanne Peter, Norbert Janzen, Dr. Christian Keller, Ivo Koerner, Markus Koerner
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Ehningen / Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 14562 / WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE 99369940

Steve Townsend ---26/10/2015 19:31:50---I am trying to extend the Bond Curve to support T-Bills on the short end, The default weight setting

From: Steve Townsend <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Date: 26/10/2015 19:31
Subject: [Quantlib-users] FittedBondDiscountCurve with TBills

I am trying to extend the Bond Curve to support T-Bills on the short end, The default weight settings for duration < 1.0 seem too lage, skewing the fitting undesirably. What is a sensible choice of weight formula across the maturity spectrum when maturities < 1Y are needed on the curve? Seems like preserving the existing logic for >= 1Y is fine but a different rule is needed for < 1Y.
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